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A tri-objective, dynamic weapon assignment model for surface-based air defence
(Operations Research Society of South Africa, 2016)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In a military surface-based air defence environment, a fire control officer typically employs a computerised weapon assignment decision support subsystem to aid him in the assignment of available surface-based ...
The status and challenges of industrial engineering in South Africa
(SAIIE, 2016-05)
The industrial engineering discipline in South Africa is examined by introducing the context of the discipline and by revisiting its history. The drivers influencing the context and future of industrial engineering in South ...
A decision-making framework for effective maintenance management using life cycle costing (LCC) in a rolling stock environment
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2016)
ENGLISH Abstract: In this paper, a life cycle costing (LCC) framework for effective maintenance management is investigated and developed for use in a railway rolling stock environment. The framework consists of combining ...
A normative model for assessing competitive strategy
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2016)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The hyper-competitive nature of e-business has raised the need for a generic way to appraise the merit of a developed business strategy. Although progress has been made in the domain of strategy evaluation, ...
Towards a framework to guide the evaluation of inclusive innovation systems
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2016)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Innovation for inclusive development aims not only to produce products and services for ‘base of the pyramid’ (BoP) markets, but also to improve innovative capacity and empower those that form part of the ...
A technologically-driven asset management approach to managing physical assets - a literature review and research agenda for smart asset management
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2016)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The concept of ‘smart’ is increasingly used in the commercial environment, and relates to a perception of technological intelligence. The concept of ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) has also become a reality ...
The absence of a creative focus in the conventional engineering design process : identifying research opportunities to address this
(SAIIE, 2016-05)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper synthesizes an overview of various models of the engineering design process with an overview of the most relevant theories within the field of creativity studies to conclude that (i) creativity ...
Tensile properties and microstructure of direct metal laser-sintered TI6AL4V (ElI) alloy
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2016)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) is an additive manufacturing technology used to melt metal powder by high laser power to produce customised parts, light-weight structures, or other complex objects. ...
A methodology to evaluate the influence of part geometry on residual stresses in selective laser melting
(Faculty of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, Stellenbosch University, 2016)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The subject of residual stresses induced by the Selective Laser Melting (SLM) process has been one of the main focus areas in literature over the past decade. It has been reported that residual stresses ...
Critical review of the levelised cost of energy metric
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2016)
The purpose of this paper is to critically review the ‘levelised cost of energy’ metric used in electricity project development. This metric is widely used, because it is a simple metric to calculate the cost per unit of ...